Greek Pastrami Gyro appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Greek pastrami gyro · Salt Lake City
The Salt Lake gyro at Crown Burgers and Apollo combines vertical-rotisserie lamb-and-beef gyro meat with pastrami, tomato, onion, tzatziki and pita bread, a Greek-American fusion that defines the local counter idiom.
Greek Orthodox immigrants arrived in Utah in waves from the late 1800s, building Holy Trinity Cathedral in 1925 and the annual Salt Lake Greek Festival since 1976. Greek-American burger counters including Crown Burgers (1978) and Apollo Burger (1980s) brought the gyro spit to Utah burger culture, blending it with the pastrami burger and fry sauce into a distinctive local Greek-American counter idiom.
Where to eat in Salt Lake City:
- Crown Burgers
- Apollo Burger
- Manoli's